Gabriel Malor: Justice Sotomayor cut right to it: under Trump's theory of presidential immunity, can a president order the assassination of a rival for personal gain? Sauer says yes, in certain circumstances. (He hasn't quite made it clear what the limitation is on those circumstances.)

Justice Sotomayor cut right to it: under Trump's theory of presidential immunity, can a president order the assassination of a rival for personal gain? Sauer says yes, in certain circumstances. (He hasn't quite made it clear what the limitation is on those circumstances.)

Biden speaks into intercom: Wet work teams on standby please.

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look, I’m not saying Biden SHOULD kill Trump to save the country. not at all. i’m just surprised that this is the legal landscape Trump is attempting to craft.

The funniest part of this joke is imagining that Biden has the balls to do it

Biden needs to be setting up target practice on the White House lawn right about now

All I'm imagining is the wet work scene from Horrible Bosses.

Standing back and standing by.

Really hope she asks if the president can murder 6 SCOTUS Justices and as many senators it takes to give his party a filibuster proof majority without any criminal liability

Same

If I were Joe Brandon I would attend oral arguments re: presidential immunity while carrying a [redacted] and wearing a t shirt with a picture of the Supreme Court on it and 6 of them labeled “vacancy expected”.

Same

Imagine Biden writing an amicus curiae just plainly stating with one single sentence that if Trump is given full immunity then he will have the same immunity to, and would intend to use it.

perhaps the only thing that would make them reconsider ruling for absolute immunity.

only under “certain circumstances” tho

That circumstance is if the president is a republican

Exactly what I was thinking, too.

If the president is a Republican, totally immunity, if not, impeachment for any and all reasons is what I think they might have meant.

Going to be a bit delicate in the phrasing to get that interpretation. But I'm sure they'll try.

I already see where this is going. SCOTUS will rule for "absolute immunity"... right after Trump gets sworn in. No decision until then. (November would be too soon, since that would unleash Biden).

Certainly looks like this is the plan.

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LOL... you expect THIS court to honor that? If so, I have a bridge at Point Nemo I'd like to sell you.😂 They'll just extend the term, if that's what they really want.

They can punt it back to lower courts to run out the clock.

The lawyers here have said that if Trump gets elected, Jan 21st he can order the DoJ to drop all the Federal prosecutions against him. I'm sure he's got people working on how to kill the GA and NY ones as well, as well as trying to delay them until after the election.

Certain circumstances: when it's my guy doing the murderin'

Yeah but you have to say that in legal terms: "provided the president in question, is a duly-registered member of the U.S. Republican Party at the time of ordering said assassination and remains a member of such party throughout."

Sounds like Biden should immediately call for drone strikes on Mar-a-Lago and the Bedminster Golf Club

Roberts already asked his hypothetical. That’s the tell, isn’t it? No DC case before election—or, probably, ever.

Biden White House submits a sealed brief that simply doxxes the families of the six Republican justices to the 5th degree of consanguinity.

Come on Dark Brandon be a legend.

Upon hearing Sauer's answer, Thomas nodded sagely and Alito excitedly licked his chops.

A bold strategy for someone running to unseat the sitting president lol

I heard that. His answer was truly insane. Didn't skip a beat saying it's ok for the president to assassinate opponents.

The limitation is clearly that only Republicans are legitimate presidents and possess this immunity.

Yo does Trump realize he's arguing his way into Biden being able to assassinate him with immunity before the election?

He knows Biden is still on the “they go low we go high” thing

He should rethink that, Joe seems to be pretty cool with genocide and other fucked up stuff.

Biden is, but what about Dark Brandon?

Yeah, which gets us President Whoever-Trumps-VP-Is winning the election, or Junior (unless Ivanka has him bumped off for being incompetent.)

The word people were working hard not to say was apparently "Ermächtigungsgesetz."

I've got two other fun words for you: "Reichstagsbrandverordmung" and "Notverordnung" First one is what comes to my mind every time Trump says Jan 6 was actually Antifa

So much Gleichschaltung from 2017 to 2021...

gesundheit

The limitation is clearly "only if Republicans do it, not Democrats, duh".

the certain circumstances are “if donald trump is president”

Excellent. If they rule in favor of this utter horseshit, Joe should have every member of the Federalist Society assassinated for the good of American jurisprudence.

I wonder why nobody on the SCOTUS bench is laughing out loud.

Because 6 of them want to give Republicans this immunity, but they can't figure out how to deny it to Democrats.

Spinning up the hit team for Leonard Leo right now

I assume the 'certain circumstances' being if it's a GQP president who's gooning to become an Autocrat?

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